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Well I know it doesn't work quite like that, but you get what I am saying. A lot of people think Nebraska has to have this top 10 defense that is only giving up 13 a game in order to win a lot of games. That just isn't true. Just a little improvement can make a huge difference.

I would agree with this. The big difference between Group of 5 schools and Power 5 schools is in the linemen. The offensive and defensively linemen make a huge difference. Lots of good skill players out there. Lots of fast guys that can catch, throw and run. Group of 5 guys may be a couple inches shorter and a little lighter coming out of HS, but they are still good ball players.

This is basically the way I feel. I expect a marginal improvement in offensive and defensive production, and really that is all that is needed to go to at least an 8 win team. Something close to 40pts a game. Nebraska scored 30 a game last year. Lets add a TD to that and get to 37. I would consider that marginal improvement. Defensively NU was at 31.3 per game, which is pretty bad. Lets lop a TD off of that and we are at 24.3 per game. Again I consider that improvement to be marginal. Those 2 improvements will pay very large in the W-L column.

I have had concussion training also. I may have been pulled off the field for evaluation, but I think I would have passed the evaluation.

I was just going to say something similar. It is too bad they stopped showing ARF. It was a lot of fun to watch. ESPN's other thing they showed was Big East basketball in the early 80's. They used to have a Tuesday game of the week. I played football from 4th grade through my freshman year of college. Never had a concussion. Got my bell rung a couple of times, but for nothing more than a few seconds. I can honestly say I don't think I have ever had one. Some people are just prone to concussions.

OSU will always have the potential to be good, because they will always have the best recruiting classes in the conference. It is really tough to say how well Day will do taking over for Urb. He did very well in his 3 game audition last year. I actually think the team looked better under his coaching in the first three games than it did for most of the season under Urban.

skyline chilli or Cincinnati Chili is awful Runza's are great I just had 2 on Tuesday

I am not sure I could name the 5 movies I have seen the most. I will name 5 movies that I will always stop and watch when I am channel surfing. Ocean's 11- I love caper movies The Fugitive- I was just watching this movie on Wednesday. Again, just a well done movie. Apollo 13- I know how it ends, but it is just a great movie Highlander- There can be only one Apocolypto- My wife and kids say I always watch this, and they are right. OK I thought of a few more Skyfall Casino Royal The Bank Job Any of the Cornetto Trilogy Beer Fest

I would call what you were doing, a$$ kissing. It is always necessary, to some extent, in most jobs. Some people are really good at it and it is very natural. Doesn't sound like it is a real natural thing for you to do. Some people go way overboard on it though. I taught school with a guy that was always stroking the administration to try and ingratiate himself to them. He volunteered for every committee etc. It was so blatant and easy to see what he was doing. I am not very good at it either. My father wasn't good at it either, that is why he never moved too far up the corporate ladder.

That was the most ridiculous thing about that whole game. NW threw 64 passes in that game and had no holding calls. That is almost statistically impossible.

It wasn't Dishman it was Adam True. It was a surreal game for sure. Just like the 11 AM start worked against ASU in 1995 the late start in Tempe worked against Nebraska in 96. It wasn't like the defense played bad. They only gave up 13 points. The offense couldn't get out of their own way. It was just one of those games where nothing goes right on the offence.

You think way deeper about this than I do. I don't worry as much about plot holes as long as they are not too big.

From your last point the kid was the kid in Iron Man 3. Cap showing up on the bench is possible. He knew they would all be there at that point so all he had to do was be their on time. The only problem was that he would be like 105 years old. I like the movie a lot. The story line was a lot different that I was expecting and I enjoyed that. It had the right amount of humor, action and drama for my tastes. I never felt the movie was too long. Never caught myself thinking this is a 3 hour movie and it should be shorter.

I guess I didn't realize that he had never seen the field. I guess I thought he had played some ST at least.

I don't think I go see any movie because a particular actor/actress in in it. I guess the subject matter means more to me than what actor is in the role. There are actors that are pretty much always good IMO even if the movie isn't great. Paul Giamatti Tom Wilkinson Tom Hanks Meryl Streep Helen Mirren Kate Winslet Matt Damon Christian Bale Jennifer Lawrence Cate Blanchette Denzel Washington Just off the top of my head

Hey I like dumb funny as much as the next guy, but this is just dumb.

Sorry, this is a really dumb topic. I mean, Its a movie, if they wanted Apollo Creed to live he would have lived.

Actually I think he would have found a lot of good local players close to run his offense. Lots of Nebraska kids fit what he was looking for in offensive linemen. Defense is where he would have had trouble recruiting. Paul Johnson would have put a good solid product on the field. He would have just never won at the level consistently that Nebraska fans at the time would have tolerated. You would have seen a lot of 8-4 from him. Maybe a 10-2 every few years and even a 7-5 or 6-6 mixed into it.

Been reading all of this. I pretty much agree with all you are saying. Your 3rd paragraph basically sums up the way I feel about TLJ. Your explanation is why a lot of the critics liked it to a degree and all the fan boys didn't. He tried to do something different it didn't work with fans that have built up what it should have been in their minds are really pissed about. I have seen all of the Star Wars movies I saw the first in 1977 when I was 11 years old. To me they have all always been popcorn movies. The whole myth of Star Wars has been built up by fans not George Lucas. Good adventures that should't be taken too seriously. Some are better than others TLJ wasn't as good as some. It was still better than Attack of the Clones.

Ok, have it your way then. He had great players, he was just a terrible coach.

Bo Pelini is a good defensive coach for the most part. He was good at creating schemes for stopping offenses if he had the right personnel. I think he was a fairly good motivator and for the most part his players like him. I think it is a testament to his abilities as a coach that he always won 9+ games every year he was at Nebraska. I also think his many flaws are what didn't allow him to be more successful at Nebraska. I am not sure how you would call his temper issues "perceived". The man had temper issues, they are well documented on video and audio recordings. He was thin skinned beyond disbelief and was terrible dealing with the media. His downfall started when his brother left Lincoln. I believe Carl was the only person on the staff that he even halfway listed to. A good manager/coach has to be willing to listen to other ideas and ways of doing things. He surrounded himself with yes men. It doesn't mean those guys couldn't coach, I just think it was a dictatorship. His defensive schemes were flawed for the B1G conference. He was always too worried about getting beat deep in the passing game. His defense was built to stop the pass first. Which works fairly well when you have really good front 7 guys. His run fits were too precise if everything worked perfectly it was fine, but things rarely work perfectly. So against great running teams "Wisconsin" he would give up 408 yards to a back because he didn't want to get beat with the pass. He wasn't a good enough recruiter to get the linemen he needed to run his defense. He didn't trust local talent and passed on or slow played guys that would have helped his team defensively. I am talking about Ott, Bazata, and Harrison Phillips. PB would be a great DC at the Pro level. He would be able to get the players he needed and not have to deal with the press and other distraction that go with being a HC. It would suit him. He is not ever going to be a great HC, but because of his huge ego he won't admit it.

Well, that looks different.

I to watch Triple Frontier, it was pretty good. Not great but worth the 2 hours I spent watching it. Will probably watch The Dirt this weekend.

JMO but I think Jacobson wanted to be more of a stretch 4, even though he is playing a more traditional role at ISU just like he did at Nebraska. I also think he thought his playing time would diminish with the addition of Copeland and JPJ. He was going to go from starting to coming off the bench. The same goes for Morrow. He always saw himself as more of a perimeter player not a short power forward. He had better numbers at Nebraska then he does at Marquette. He could have have been Nebraska's Jordan Murphy. Those two would have really helped make this team pretty good this year.

anyone seen Captain Marvel? Is it any good?